Category Archives: Psychology

Spinoza’s Question

Robert Lanza asks Spinoza’s question: when the body has succumbed to brain death–heat death–what of the mind? Dr. Robert Lanza is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He … Continue reading

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The Quantum Mind Hypothesis: Roger Penrose and the Emperor’s New Mind

Previous posts: Microtubules and consciousness, Is consciousness computable? Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931), is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute … Continue reading

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The Miracle of Marsh Chapel

This study was the Ph. D. dissertation research of Walter Pahnke, M.D., then a graduate student in the philosophy of religion at Harvard University, who set out to determine whether the transcendent experience reported during psychedelic acid sessions was similar … Continue reading

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The War on Consciousness: entheogens and mind control

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness

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